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Pre-Marketing: Super Bowl picks

* Quants: Pats will beat Giants by more than 3 points

* Losing the golden goose: SecondMarket’s post-FB challenge

* Bill Gurley: Why Facebook clearly belongs in the 10x revenue crowd

* Strange cell-fellows: Rapper Ja Rule chills with PE crooks Alan Hevesi and Hank Morris

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher ahead of jobs data, London rises early, European shares hit 6-month high and the Nikkei slips.

* Jordan Weissmann: Texas is losing its longhorns

* Katie Fehrenbacher: Thank Moore’s Law for VC cleantech bust

* John Gapper: Facebook ought to ditch its IPO

* Blackstone: No rush to sell BankUnited

* PE fights back: Top lobbyist launches “education campaign”

* Darshak Sanghavi: American healthcare is already socialized

* Post-IPO: Facebook will have to make privacy investigations public

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